SHEEP, PART 2, The Lord Is | DR MIKE WOODS SR | RADAH CHURCH | 8-8-21 | #DRMIKEWOODS

Welcome to the Apostle's Table, where lions roar and lives are changed. The Apostle's Table is a part of the worldwide outreach ministry of Dr. Michael Lyris Woods Sr. You will encounter supernatural wisdom and revelation that will help you discern God's purpose for your life, develop your potential, and deploy your gift effectively into the earth. We decree your life will never be the same again. Thanks for joining us and welcome to The Apostle's Table. Well, grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For those of you who are uninitiated, my name is Apostle Michael Lyris Woods, and welcome to Sunday's edition of The Apostle's Table. Listen, I'm super excited to share with you on today. There is a word from the the Lord, and I'm ready to give it to you. But before I do, I want to do two things. One, I want to pray, and then I want to take you into a worship session with my dear son, my middle son Benjamin Woods. And then right after that, I'm going to minister the word to you. Listen, this word today, we're continuing our series on sheep and the benefits of being a sheep in the kingdom of God. Listen, you want to stay with this, you want to share it. This word is going to be helpful, it's going to be a strength to you and all that you will share it with. So please share it now. Let somebody know that we're on, and I promise you their life will never ever be the same. Glory to God. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for another opportunity, God, to speak your word. And I pray, Father, as we share the word today, that every person listening, God, every person under the sound of my voice will receive the power and the healing, the victory and deliverance that comes through the Word. For your Word declares, you sent your Word and it healed them. So even as we speak today, let the Word go out with a power and an authority that will bring forth healing.

And we bless you for it. And we praise you for it now.

In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah. I'm excited for the light, the illumination, and the intel— intelligence of the Holy Spirit that's going to flow, my God, through this teaching on today. Listen, we're going right into this session already in progress right after Ben ministers to us. So stay with us, worship with Ben, and I'm telling you, this is going to be life-changing. So do not scroll. Here's my son Ben Woods, and then we'll be back to continue the series called She— Come on, people of God, draw your minds in right now and let God move in the spirit right now in your house, in your living room. He's worthy to be praised today.

He's worthy to be praised in the midst of everything we're going through. He's still worthy.

Hallelujah.

The song says bow down.

Bow down. Bow down and worship him. Worship him. Oh, worship him. Bow down and worship him. Oh. Worship Him. Oh, worship Him. Come on, draw your minds right now. Bow down and worship Him. Enter in. We want to enter in Your presence, God. Holy Into me. Oh, bow down and worship him. He tell me, bow into me. Come to me. Sweet fire, sweet perfume. His awesome presence fills this room. This is holy ground. This is holy ground. So come and bow, bow down. Hey God, we bow before you, Lord. Oh, we bow before you, God. We bow before you. Come on, draw your minds in. Bow down and worship him. Worship him. Oh, worship him. Bow down and worship him. Enter in. Go into him. God's soothing fire, sweet perfume. His awesome presence fills this room. This is holy. Holy ground. This is holy ground. This is holy ground. This is holy ground. Yeah, so come and bow. Oh God, we thank you. Bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down. By now, Michael Lyris Woods Woods. Oh, we bow before you in your presence, God. We humbly ask you to come to this place like never before. Oh God, move in the atmosphere, move in the atmosphere. Come sup with us, come sup with us, Lord. Bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down. Oh, we want more of you. We bow before you, Lord. We want to bless you. We want to bless you. We praise you, Lord. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down. Oh, we are standing in your presence. We're standing in your presence, Lord. We want more of you. We want more.

We want more.

We want more. We want more. We want more, more of your power, more of your glory, Lord. Oh, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down. Oh! Oh! We thank you God, we thank you— Thank you for your presence.

Well, praise God!

I know that song blessed your heart. I feel the presence of God. Listen, Ben is truly my middle son, and he is my son in whom I am well pleased. I love all of my children, pleased with all of them, and Ben indeed, um, he does his job to work in his purpose, and I'm certainly grateful for the anointing. Listen, I know you feel God. Glory to God! Listen, let's get right into this word today. I want to pray really quickly again and bless this message. Glory to God! And just kind of seal that moment of worship in your heart so that you can continue to touch God in a very real way. So let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you again for the opportunity to minister to you. We thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. May your people be blessed by you and never impressed by Michael Lyris Woods. Do something unusual spiritual today through your word, something man cannot do, and we praise you for it. Superimpose this word on our lives and let us see the manifestations of it immediately, God, and we bless you for it in Jesus' name. Amen and thank God. Listen, today we're continuing again our series on sheep. Glory to God. And just by way of review, I want to share with you again, I taught on last week the first message, and I kind of just laid a backdrop to give us some hermeneutical foundation to what we're building here in this series. And I begin sharing with you that in order to actually reap the benefits of the sheep-shepherd relationship, you have to actually have a covenant relationship with God. You. And through that, you have to become a sheep. You have to come into his presence as an inferior relating to a superior. I'll say that again: you got to come into his presence as an inferior relating to a superior. Because listen, for all practical intents and purposes, you got to recognize God is real, and you have to humble yourself as an inferior in his presence, so that you are positioned to receive everything he has to offer and everything he has to give you as his son or daughter. And one of the things that I brought out last week is that becoming a sheep— and that's what we discussed, becoming a sheep— because none of this matters if you don't become a sheep. It's just a cute little verse really that you learned in Sunday school, Psalm 23. Tree, and it doesn't mean anything, and you never really reap the benefits of it if you don't become a sheep. Glory to God. And so that's what we talked about, and we discussed how becoming a sheep is twofold. It is transformational and it is transfusional. And from Romans 12, we discussed the idea of how your mind must be renewed and transformed, metamorphing Greek.

Please go back and watch, uh, message 1.

Please, I promise you, you need it.

It's going to be a good foundation for you in life.

Glory to the name of God. And, and we talked about how a renewed mind, uh, allows us to really tap into the dynamics of relationship with God. And then secondly, we talked about on the other side of that fold was that becoming a sheep is also trans a fusional. In other words, you need a, a sheep transfusion of the characteristics of a sheep need to be transfused into your life. The entirety of a sheep's makeup, mentality, intelligence, spiritually— watch this—

has to be transferred to you so you are totally empty out of your aspirations, out of your dreams, out of your desires And so you could totally trust God with every aspect of your life.

You gotta take on this sheep attitude for the benefits again. So again, it's transformational and it's transfusion.

Like in medicine, if you got a blood transfusion, the whole matter in the blood that is being transfused is moved from one person to another to cause the other to survive, to live. Oh my God, to be healed. This is what happens with God when you— oh my God—

take on a sheep-like mentality toward him. He transfers his persona into your life so you— oh my God, y'all, y'all need to stay with me today— so you can live like him and live for him. So let's get into this today, uh, Psalm 23. And I want to say this off the rip before I read the context today, and we won't get into all of these verses, but because we're teaching the series all month, but what I do want you to grab is something about Psalms in particular, the Book of Psalms. Psalms actually is made up of 5 books, right? Uh, it's not one book with chapters, it's 5 books with 5 different divisions. My God, 5 books with 5 different divisions. And, um, these divisions are typologies, all right?

So you have, uh, 5 types.

You have Messianic Psalms— hear me— that only discuss, glory to the name of God, prophetic information and revelation concerning the coming Messiah. You have didactic Psalms, Psalms that were designed specifically to minister in the presence of the king whenever the king was in worship, so that the king—

oh my God— could understand he is not— glory to the name of God—

the king of kings, but God is.

So these psalms would minister to the king about God so that he will always keep things in perspective about his life.

My God, my God, here today, listen, I need you to grab this, y'all. So the reality is this is not one book, it's 5 books. Messianic didactic. Also imprecatory psalms. Imprecatory psalms were prayed, uh, when assistance was needed. Oh my God, to war against the enemy of David or Moses or whoever the author was. So they would pray a psalm of imprecation so that God would intervene and fight on their behalf. I'm telling you, you need to, you need to learn how to work the imprecatory Psalms to your advantage when it comes to your enemies, when it comes to your haters, when it comes to those who do not agree with who you are and want to wage attack against you.

When there is a demon or spiritual enemy after you, you ought to implicate the hand of God in your life. Glory to the name of God!

To stop him Hallelujah! From prevailing against God's plan and God's purpose for you. Yes, Lord! Hallelujah! And, ah, yeah, so we had Messianic, imprecatory, didactic. And then you had Psalms that were reserved just for the journey. They were called pilgrimage Psalms, Psalms that were made for the journey when the children of Israel would make their journey to the temple. Because it wasn't like getting in your car, driving to church, or walking around a corner to your church. They had to make a journey, so they had had songs prepared. Glory to God! They had worship prepared. Hallelujah! So that when they would leave their tents going to the temple, that the presence of God would remain with them. So they understood the power of worship, so that nothing would hinder the— oh my God, I want to tell somebody, ought to catch that and worship on your way to the temple and not wait till you get there. You're—

you all week, your life should be a worship.

It should be a proskynasis in Greek, that lays that lays before God and worships him even to you before you even get to the temple. That way when you get there, one of them was, I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. On the way to the house, they will begin to say, I was glad when they said unto me, oh my God, let us go into the house of the Lord.

They'll begin to sing unto the Lord. Glory to God. There will be something that's happening happy.

Not like we were when we was children. We didn't want to go to church. We didn't want to go to the house. Glory to God. But there ought to be something that says, I'm glad to go to the house of the Lord. Glory to God. I'm glad to be in his presence. I'm glad to be amongst the living and the saints. Glory to God. You ought to be able to sing hallelujah songs of pilgrimage. So these are 5 books, 5 divisions, and because of is these books don't have chapters, they have divisions. And the 23rd Psalm is a division. Glory to the name of God. It's not a chapter. I heard, I heard people say turn to the 23rd chapter of Psalms. No, it's not. It's a, it's the 23rd division of Psalm properly, or Psalm 23 properly, right? So let's read Psalm 23. It's a text that many of you learned in Sunday school. You had to memorize it growing up. You learned it in Vacation Bible School. But listen to me, this text has a deep revelation beyond just a cute little verse that we're able to remember. The things inside of here God wants to manifest in our lives for real. Glory be to God. I want to say it again, he wants to manifest them in our lives for real. Glory to God. So let's read. The Bible says, the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me beside the still waters. He restores my soul. Hallelujah, hallelujah. He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley play. Of the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy rod and thy staff, they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me, hallelujah, all the days of my life, and I will dwell, hallelujah, Hallelujah! In the house of the Lord, shebabaya mandeose, shukura babasa, forever and ever. Today, this is part 2 of the series Sheep, and I want to talk about, hallelujah, the Lord our Shepherd. He removes lack. My God, he— this is a benefit of being a sheep. See is that the Lord our Shepherd removes lack. Glory to God. It's interesting to note, and I don't want to get really too caught up today talking about David because I can talk about him all day and night, really, for real. Uh, David is one of my most admired humans in the Bible, in biblical history. Glory to God. And, um, this indeed is a Psalm of David. And David, out of his revelation of being a shepherd boy— he was— and listen, understand, he was a shepherd boy. He was, he was around flies and bees and dirt and dirty sheep all day long. He stunk. Y'all not talking to me here. He wasn't a, uh, a guy that was always clean and dapper. He was a sheep herder. He was a shepherd. Glory to God. But out of his caring for the sheep as a shepherd boy was born this revelation concerning the sheep-shepherd covenant relationship.

And by virtue of the statement in verse 1, David says, the Lord—

hear me is my shepherd.

And the word Lord there is transliterated from the Hebrew word Jehovah.

So he says, Jehovah is my shepherd. Now, the very—

the most simple meaning in Hebrew of the word Jehovah is the existing one.

Let me tell somebody that's listening to me today that doesn't believe that God—

oh, oh my God, I feel the anointing here— that God exists.

Exist.

I need you to be clear that he is the existing one. Not he did exist, not he's coming back to exist. He exists right now. He is the existing one. And I want to tell you something, just because you don't know him and just because you have been— what people do in church as some religious activity, and quite frankly, you might have run into the wrong group of church folk who didn't know the existing God themselves. But I want to say to you today that God, the existing one, is still alive.

Glory to God.

He exists.

He exists. He is Jehovah God and he exists.

Glory to the name of God. Somebody said that he is existing and he is omnipotent, meaning that he has all power in his hand.

There is no power—

glory to the name of God that God does not know.

There is no power that God has not tapped into.

There is no power— glory to the name of God— that God cannot impart, that God cannot release. Oh my God, I want you to understand that he is omnipotent, and there is none more powerful than he. Somebody else said he's omniscient, which means he sees and knows all things He's the most intelligent being alive. I want you to get this. He is alive. He lives. Glory to the name of God. The old songwriter says, he lives, he lives.

Christ Jesus lives today.

He walks with me, he talks with me along life's narrow way. He lives, he lives. Salvation to impart. Ask me how I know he lives.

My God, He lives, husha, within my heart. I'm telling you, he's alive.

He's Jehovah.

The Lord is. He's existing. He's omnipotent. He's omniscient. Oh my God, he's omnipresent. He's everywhere, everywhere, coexisting at the same time. He's God.

He's manifold in his ability to be God.

Glory to God.

He's omnipotent.

Omnipresent. He's here with me in Atlanta, Georgia, and he's there with you in Africa.

He's there with you in Pakistan. He's there with you in London. He's there with you in Hawaii. Glory to the name of God.

He's there with you in New York, in Florida, in Texas, in California, because he's omnipresent.

And glory to the name— he's not coming, he's there. Uh, you hear me? He's not coming, he's there. I dare you, type that on the screen right now. He's not me, but make it present and say he's here. I don't care where you are or where you're watching from or what you're going through. He's God and he is here.

He said, the Lord is Hashem, my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord, he, the existing one, he's omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, present. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Not only that, he's Jehovah, he's the existing one. And because of that, he's also Jehovah Jireh.

He's the Lord our provider. David says, this man is my shepherd. Glory to the name of God. He's limited in his ability to provide. That's what Jireh means. Jireh means that God has no limits in what he can provide.

Provide.

In other words, if you need it, he can and will provide it. We find Jehovah Jireh, oh my God, handidi asorobo ushki atai, eb briska tabaya bosiaia, providing for the saints all through the Old Testament, throughout the wilderness. Glory to the name of God. Did not there quail and manna and clothing that grew with them as they progressed in life? He is Jehovah Jireh. I'm telling you right now, you're looking at somebody that has lived by faith for 32 years, and I'm telling you, in my life, God has never missed a beat. God has always been on time. God has always been Jehovah Jireh, my provider. This God David talks about in Psalm 23, verse 1, he's Jehovah Jireh.

Not only that, he's Jehovah Tasitkenu. Jehovah Tasitkenu, which means that he's the Lord my sanctifier. Oh my God, he sanctifies us.

He—

which means he sets us apart and consecrates us for a particular purpose or assignment. Can I tell you something today? This is an advantage of being sheep.

You have an opportunity to have a relationship with the Lord. David said the Lord is my shepherd.

So he—

listen, that's a miracle in itself that you have the opportunity, good God Almighty, to have a relationship with God. Not religion, relationship. So you can know him as Jehovah Jireh. You can know him as Jehovah Tsidkenu, who set you apart for a special purpose, a consecrated assignment. Can I tell you something?

You got a special purpose, you got a consecrated assignment.

You're authentic, you're vintage, you're wonderful, you're awesome, you're mighty, and ain't nobody God but God.

And he wants to use you to bring that purpose to Yes, he's Tesitkenu, he's Jireh. You know, he's not only that, he is the existing one, Jehovah, oh my God, Makaddish, which means he's the Lord our righteousness. When we become a sheep and cut covenant with God, we say the Lord is our shepherd. He's the existing one who is our righteousness as well He exists to be our righteousness.

Everything right.

Righteousness— diasune is a Greek word for righteousness. Glory to God. The Hebrew term is taken in a Septuagint transliteration of the same word, oh God, makadish, which literally means, oh my God, that which it has been made to be right and pacific for us.

In other words, there is a covenant right right that God—

hear me— has created.

Oh, glory to God!

There's a covenant right that God has created for you and I. He's our righteousness. It's only right unless he says it's right. It's not right just because CNN said it, because Fox News said it. Glory to God!

I know CNN said— glory to God—

and Fox News said COVID can kill you, and it can.

But if you trust God, what God says is right—

y'all ain't got to hear me, glory to God—

can keep you alive.

Glory to Jesus. His blood can cover you.

His blood can protect you. Glory to God. He says with his stripes we are healed. Even if you got it right now, I'm telling you, and suffering and struggling to breathe and can't smell and can't taste, I dare you to lift your hands right where you and say, God is my righteousness, God is my healer.

Oh yes, he is. In the mighty name of Jesus, he is. He's my kadosh. He's your righteousness. There's a covenant. There's some things that are right. Stop accepting what's wrong and accept what's right, what God has determined to be right through his word. And when you become a sheep, you, you follow the guidance of his word, of his plan, of revelation, of prophetic utterance over your life, and you you understand, glory to God, that I can only live in the realm of right. Some of you have delays and you're stuck because you're consistently living in the realm of wrong.

You can't get past where you are because even church— you church folk who go to church religiously but you don't build relationship with God, you don't have a walking, talking intimate right relationship with God where he's constantly revealing to you through his word— watch this— and his audible voice. I heard some dummy say, because that's all it is, it's ignosis or ignorance.

Glory to God.

That's the Greek word for ignorance, to ignore knowledge. Ignosis, to be dumb. Glory to God. To knowledge.

I heard someone who was walking under the influence of ignosis say say, hear me, that God cannot speak to you audibly. Something's wrong with you.

You can call me crazy if you want, but God speaks to me all the time because I have a relationship with him. And when you live in a place of purity and passion—

whoa, hallelujah— God will open his mouth and God will talk to you. My God, here.

All right, y'all, that is totally free. Glory to the name of God. You can take that, like it or lump it, and you can continue to live, hallelujah, in the realm where God doesn't speak. This is why so many people can go off balance. They don't have no reverence of God.

They haven't tapped in the right relationship, makadish type relationship.

Glory to God. That's why they go off and start believing and trusting other things.

That's why, because religion stops satisfying them.

Oh my, that's why they say it's okay for them to be inclusive. Uh-oh. When it comes to religion, we're supposed to love all people, and I do love all people, okay? But in the end of the day, what God says in the scripture is right. And when you really got a real relationship with him and he talks to you— I ain't crazy, I don't need a couch. Hallelujah.

I'm in good company with Jesus, who the Father talked to.

I'm in good company with Elijah Elijah.

I'm in good company with Moses.

I'm in good company with so many other humans who have close proximity to the Father, in whom he speaks to.

Okay, I gotta go. He's Jehovah Makkaddish, the Lord your righteous, Tsidkenu, your sanctifier, Jireh, hallelujah, your provider. Watch this, he's also the Lord is my shepherd. He's the Jehovah, the existing one. He's Jehovah He's the Lord, my banner. Glory to the name of God. And in this side, this with the idea is that I hold up a banner to represent identity.

Who am I with? Who am I following? So the banner I hold up is a bloodstained banner.

Glory to God.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. It's stained with the blood of Jesus.

Jesus.

And I am who I am, glory to God, because of Jesus and his righteous blood. Glory to the name of God. He died on the bloody cross that I might live. He died on the bloody cross that I might be saved. He died on the bloody cross that I might be redeemed. And so I uphold a bloodstained banner. Hallelujah.

See, he's the existing one. He lives.

Oh God.

Oh God, he's Jehovah. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord Jehovah, the existing one in Hebrew, the existing one. He's Jehovah Shalom. He's the Lord my peace. Peace here, shalom, is not the absence of confusion, but peace is the presence of assistance.

Shalom in Hebrew means the presence of assistance.

So Jehovah Shalom the existing one who is present to assist. You should never be trying to do anything alone or by yourself.

Jehovah is present to assist. I'm, I'm still in the same version.

The Lord is my shepherd.

Hallelujah!

I'm still there. This is the— this is one of the benefits of being a sheep, to have a relationship with the Lord, with God himself. Oh my God, David said he's my shepherd. I got a relationship with the existing one. Question: do you have a relationship with him? Not only is it Jehovah Nissi, the banner of shalom, peace, he's Jehovah Rohi. He's my shepherd.

That's what shepherd is there, is roha. He's Jehovah. Glory to God. God.

He is my teacher, he's my ruler, he's my herdsman that feeds me, he's my shepherd. David is saying, listen, the Lord is Jehovah Raha. He's my shepherd, he teaches me, he leads me. Everything I need, I learn from him. I tap into his manifold wisdom because he is my shepherd. Let me tell you me something. There is no other that's smarter than God. Hallelujah! He is the smartest being you will ever know, you will ever meet. He alone is God. He alone is worthy. He is the smartest of them all. Hear me, and you all let him be your teacher. You ought to take the position of a sheep, take the position of a learner, take the position of a follower, and learn from him. And he's Jehovah, finally, Rapha. He's the Lord my healer. With his stripes we are healed. So David says, the Lord is my shepherd. The existing one is my Ra and my Rapha and my Nissah and my Shalom. Hallelujah, hallelujah. And my Jireh. And my makadish, and my tisitkenu. He is mine. I dare you type in the comments, he is mine, he is mine, he is mine, he is mine.

I want you to know this is not something you get through the preacher.

He's yours, and you can have a real working, talking, walking relationship with him. Hallelujah. This is one of the benefits of being sheep with your You gotta tap into the transfusional idea of the sheep-shepherd relationship. Your mind has to be transformed so you can grab this. Watch what happens when you embrace the Lord as your shepherd, Jehovah, the existing one, as your ro'ah, your shepherd. David says, I shall not want. Chasher, or kashar in Hebrew.

Kashar.

This word means I shall not lack, I shall not be without, I shall never decrease or be lacking or have a need. Let me say that again.

The Hebrew word chasher. See, when God is really your shepherd and you're in relationship with him. There is never a season— Lord, I hear that. I just heard the Lord say to decree over your life. This is something I decree daily: I will never be broke another day in my life. I dare somebody listening to me now, open your mouth and decree, I will never be broke. Eta, so, to, shima, briska. Another day in my life. Come on, say it. I will never be broke another day in my life.

Glory to God. Hallelujah.

You ought to declare it, you ought to keep it, you ought to receive it, because it's God's plan. He said it. If you make that covenant and become a sheep and embrace the sheep-shepherd relationship, you will never—

you'll never You'll never want. You'll never want. Hallelujah!

You'll never want.

You'll never want. You'll never want. You'll never want.

You'll never want.

He says, the Lord is my shepherd. I'll never kashar. I'll never be in lack. I'll never be without.

I'll never decrease.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

I dare somebody to type that on the screen.

I'll never decrease. Hallelujah, I'll never decrease.

I'm telling you right now, I don't care where you are, how rich you are, how poor you are.

I heard the Lord say, if you tap into the sheep-shepherd relationship for real, if you spend some time with him, if you align with people in a culture that know him for real, the Bible says you'll never decrease.

And I declare today, you You will never decrease ever. You will never be in lack. You will never want, because when you are sheep, God, whoo, he removes lack. I don't know who I'm preaching to right now, but I dare you lift up your hands. I'm closing my Bible and I'm coming to a close in this message. God is removing the lack in your life. I dare you lift up and worship right now.

Now.

I just heard the Lord say, I am releasing a spirit, hallelujah, of increase and provision that's coming to every person that will sacrifice themselves, that will get out of themselves, sacrifice themselves, get out of their way. Glory to God. And give everything to God. Hallelujah. You do what you want to do. Hear me, you get up in the morning and live life to see what's gonna happen. But God said today, you gotta be one of those persons that get up to make relationship happen with God. Get up praying, get up reading, get up worshiping, and throughout the day, keep him in your mind, keep him in your focus. And the Lord said, as you do this, you will increase more and more. You will increase in lang—

in property.

You will increase in finances. You will become a wealthy person. Matter of fact, I heard the God say, I will move you into your wealthy place, but I'm looking for sheep. I'm looking for sheep.

Hallelujah.

That will enter into—

thank you, God— the sheep shepherd relationship.

Thank you, Lord.

Lift your hands and praise him right now.

Praise him right now.

God says I'm removing lack.

I'm removing lack right now.

Listen, right now under this anointing, glory to God, I dare you to receive it.

I dare you to type it on the screen. He's removing lack. He's removing lack. He's removing lack. Some of you never sow, but under this anointing right now, I heard God. Every person listening to me now, I want you to get a seed of $23.01 in alignment with Psalm 23:1. And I want— this is going to be a seedbed for God beginning to remove lack from your life and ushering you into obedience. See, what sheep do is they sow, they give, they walk in covenant.

I want you to get your 2301 now, and I want you to sow it.

The ways to give are on the screen. You can give via Cash App or online at our website, rudderchurch.com/donate, or you can give Cash App, Rudder Church. But I heard the Lord say, get that seed. If you— if this is your week to tithe, you need to get your tithe and tithe, and then on top of your tithes. Your seed tape offering needs to be 2301.

Listen, you need to trust God in your giving now, because I'm telling you, God is removing the lack and he's opening you up to increase all the days.

Yeah, somebody ought to solidify this with a seed.

All the days of your life, he's opening you up. Glory to God to increase and growth, and you shall never want.

Shakar!

You'll never be in lack, you'll never be in need, because being a sheep removes— this is one of the benefits— it removes lack. Listen, this seed today, your tithe today, is attacking lack in your life, allowing align with the word. So now do it. Glory to God. While the saints are giving, maybe you're watching me and you say, Apostle Woods, I'm listening to you and I want to enter into this sheep-shepherd relationship. Well, listen, you can. You can absolutely, categorically. You say, listen, I've been outside of God. I, I, my grandma went to church, mama went to church, but I never repented of my sin. I never gave my heart to God. If that's you today, and if you— or if you're listening to me and you know for a fact that if you died right now, that heaven would not be your home, or you got this in question, I need you to repeat after me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I give my heart to you, and I ask you, God, to save me. Say, Father, I repent repent of my sin. I say, Lord, I open my heart and invite you in. Say, I believe that you died and rose again, and because of this, I am saved.

So I receive it now.

I believe my sins are forgiven in Jesus' name. Amen. Oh wow, glory to God. Listen, if you said that prayer, the Bible says in Acts 2:38, repent— you just took the first step— and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, and you will be saved. Listen, I'm telling you, God has forgiven you of your sin. And you say, Apostle Woods, I I want to take the next steps. I want to be baptized. I want to receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost. Listen, I've seen it in my life, laying so many times, laying hands on them and they receive the Holy Spirit. I've seen the Holy Ghost fill many at the altar calling on Jesus. Listen, if you want to be baptized, you want to be filled, take the next steps. And you want to learn more about what we do at Rhoda Church to help you with your walk, I just simply want you, glory to God, to text the number on the screen. Glory to God, it's on the screen right now. Text the words RADA NOW to the number on the screen. Glory to God. And I'm gonna send you immediately a link to your phone that will put you in the right place to get you set up to take the next steps. Listen, I love you guys. My time is gone. Thank everyone for listening today. I pray this word has blessed your soul. If you need further prayer— glory to God, thank you Jesus, hallelujah, man— maybe you're already born again, you say, Apostle, I want to pray, I need prayer, I need a prophetic word directly from the Lord. Listen, all I want you to do is go to our website, robertchurch.com/contact, it's on the screen. Send me a message with your prayer request and I will reach out to to you and minister to you and help you, as— glory to the— as the Lord will lead.

I love you guys.

Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile on you is my prayer.

Peace.